Putney Park House is a Grade II listed house at 69 Pleasance Road, Roehampton, London. [1]
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
Roehampton is a large suburban district in southwest London, and takes up a far western strip running north to south of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It occupies high land in the south that adjoins: its northern part, Richmond Park/Richmond Park Golf Courses and Putney Heath. As to its southern extreme it forms a minute east-west strip heritage conservation area and a street built in the 1980s comprising Roehampton Vale. The Vale straddles the A3 which in turn adjoins many sports pitches, Putney Vale from which it is difficult in nomenclature and in history to separate, and Wimbledon Common. Altogether Roehampton takes up a long area between the former village of Barnes to the north, Putney to the east, and the green areas around its southern part, beyond which are Kingston Vale and Raynes Park, uniquely in its borough distant from a railway station. Roehampton's most densely populated area has a long border with the largest of London's Royal Parks, Richmond Park. The area is centred about 6.3 miles (10.1 km) southwest of Charing Cross and gained its first church in the 19th century in its narrow central conservation area between its notable Alton Estate and Dover House Estate in 20th century government planning.
It was built in 1837–38 by the architect Decimus Burton for Robert Hutton. [1]
Decimus Burton one of the foremost English architects and urban designers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian and Regency styles. He was a founding Fellow and, later, Vice-President, of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and architect to the Royal Botanic Society from 1840 and an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose club premises he designed and the company of father, James Burton, the pre-eminent property developer of Georgian London, built. Modern architectural historians, such as Guy Williams (1990) and Dana Arnold (2004), contend that Decimus Burton's contribution to architecture has been grossly underestimated by previous architectural historians: as a consequence of the misattribution to Nash of many of his works; of his undeserved vituperation by his neo-gothic nemesis, Augustus Pugin; and of the consequent retention of his archives by his family.
